DNA Sequencing Megathread! Neanderthals, Denisovans and other ancient DNA!

[Queequeg]

The Ancestry test is notorious for overestimating Scandinavian ancestry.  I guess maybe their test pool for 'Scandinavia' was too generic or something.  I know some of my English ancestry comes from areas settled by Scandinavians, so I was expecting that result (and all of my English ancestry is on my mother's side, so her much higher result than mine also makes sense).

Doesn't this make a lot of sense?  Differentiating from Saxons in southern Denmark and Danes from Denmark and Celts from Bavaria must not be incredibly easy.

[The Brain]

They have to make a living. No one wants to be a fucking Saxon or Bavarian.

[Caliga]

Doesn't this make a lot of sense?  Differentiating from Saxons in southern Denmark and Danes from Denmark and Celts from Bavaria must not be incredibly easy.

It makes perfect sense.  I think if they had much more massive sample sizes from 'indigenous' people in those areas they would be able to differentiate better, but the cost of collecting and processing all of that data would be pretty significant.

[derspiess]

They have to make a living. No one wants to be a fucking Saxon or Bavarian.

Seriously?  Bavarians are the fun Germans. 

[Josquius]

The Ancestry test is notorious for overestimating Scandinavian ancestry.  I guess maybe their test pool for 'Scandinavia' was too generic or something.  I know some of my English ancestry comes from areas settled by Scandinavians, so I was expecting that result (and all of my English ancestry is on my mother's side, so her much higher result than mine also makes sense).

Doesn't this make a lot of sense?  Differentiating from Saxons in southern Denmark and Danes from Denmark and Celts from Bavaria must not be incredibly easy.

Isn't it all based on percentage chance anyway?
You have a type x gene which is held by 50% I'm the uk, 30% in the Netherlands, 80% in Norway, etc....
Of course this type x must have came from somewhere originally but they can't very well just say "you're 100% African.  Psych"  How far back do they go with the baseline?

I'm pretty sure if I got tested, my mother's family being from Yorkshire, I'd check out as heavily danish.... Though that I know of there are no actual Danes in my family over the past fww centuries.

[Caliga]

Tyr, most of my English ancestry is from Yorkshire and I tested heavily 'Scandinavian' so yes, you'd probably get similar results.

[Razgovory]

How much does that DNA thing cost?

[Caliga]

Ancestry DNA - $100
23andme - $200

[Valmy]

Still waiting for the price to go down

[Archy]

Not much sense for me doing such a test, 100% west European mutt aka Belgian

[katmai]

Waiting to hear results on a Nat Geo test that was $149 on sale after doing the ancestry test. (Both bought by my mother the avid geneologist)

[Valmy]

Not much sense for me doing such a test, 100% west European mutt aka Belgian

A true son of Lotharingia.

[Ed Anger]

I'm 100% asshole.

[katmai]

I'm 100% asshole.

Don't need no tests to tell us that!

[Maximus]

Hope you don't get asshole cancer.